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3:31 pm

Fri July 31, 2015

At midnight on Thursday, July 30th, 2015, the final amps and drum kits were reluctantly lugged out of Station North's longtime music rehearsal space, The Hour Haus. After 25 years as a music practice facility and performance venue, the building is being converted to office space. Audio producer Adam Droneberg and photographer Dan Goodrich spent the past few months chronicling the end of the Hour Haus era, collecting interviews and portraits of the building's final musical residents.

2:19 pm

Fri July 31, 2015

In this second hour of Midday, a conversation with former Baltimore police commissioner, Leonard Hamm. Leonard Hamm was top cop from 2004 through 2007, serving under two mayors, Martin O’Malley and Sheila Dixon. Today we look back on the era of zero-tolerance policing and mass arrests and the violent crime that challenged Hamm while he was commissioner and still challenges police commanders today.

Fri July 31, 2015

On this edition of Midday Friday, Tara Huffman of the Open Society Institute and producer Melody Simmons joins us to report on the sudden closing of the Baltimore City Jail. Then, Lance Lucas of Digital All Systems on his campaign to reduce Baltimore violence by swapping guns for laptops.

Humanities Connection

12:06 pm

Fri July 31, 2015

The Shelley-Godwin Archive a project of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, is making the handwritten works of four renowned 19th-century British writers accessible in today’s digital age.

The City's Detention Center is set to close, according to Governor Hogan who announced the decision yesterday. We’ll talk about what the closure means for criminal justice reform in the state and for those housed in the jail.

Then, we’ll talk about the rich history of the bluegrass genre here in Baltimore, a city that’s music was influenced by an influx of Appalachians during World Two, as chronicled in a new book by Tim Newby, who’s also brought along a few tunes.

Plus, longtime Baltimore DJ, Matt Davis, is leaving WBAL’s 98 Rock to become a full time hypnotist. We talk to him about his career in radio and moving-on to his peculiar new gig as a hypnotist.